List of Famous people with last name Rajaratnam

The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, occurred as a result of a suicide bombing in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991. At least 14 others, in addition to Rajiv Gandhi, were killed. It was carried out by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, a member of the Sri Lankan independentist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). At the time, India had just ended its involvement, through the Indian Peace Keeping Force, in the Sri Lankan Civil War. Subsequent accusations of conspiracy have been addressed by two commissions of inquiry and have brought down at least one national government.

Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, DUT ,, was a Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980–85. He took office when former deputy prime minister Goh Keng Swee, a long-serving Minister, member of the Cabinet from 1959–88, and short story writer, stepped down from the position. He is one of the founders of the ruling People's Action Party with Lee Kuan Yew, Lim Chin Siong and Toh Chin Chye.